The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1887-12-23
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cities. They cannot understand ii.
u the older cities every man Is on
the lookout for bis own personal in
terests, but 10 the West be must do
the talking for his town. II he does
not have faith be must talk until II
comes 70 him. Ii the recent work TO
establish q packing house here the
board Of trade rooms presented the
appearance Of a political headquarters
whore two prominent candidates were
running neck and neck for some i'm
Portant Office. Among the advocates
Of the enterprise It required d long
pail, strong pull and pull alto
gether, and that is exactly the way
they pulled. In speaking further upon
this subject an obseryaut exchange
says
We use the word loyal in general
sense as pertaining 70 country, but ii
Is applicable to almost every phase Of
life. We may be loyal to our conn
try, TO our wives and lovers, and we
can be loyal 10 each other in our bu.
siness relations. The greatness Of
our country, the happiness of a peo-
pie and the success 10 our business
relations al depend upon the loyalty
Of the individuals.
Upon our loyalty TO our town de-
Ponds its growth and prosperity, Eecb
city and hamlet has it's advantages. A
loyalty to those advantages Is its life.
First, we must ID our trading and buy.
ing patronize those trades and bust
nesses in our city instead of going to
neigbboring or distant towns. We are
obliged to do this because if our fel.
low citizen is doing bis duty by US be
is patronizing " in cur business or
calling. If tbe.clotbing merchant goes
to another city for bis stoves, the
hardware man is justified in going to
the other town for his dry goods.
Should such things become general in
any one town the dissolution of that
town is not far off,
In no other business in a city more
than in the newspapers and printing
business does this disloyalty show
itself, and no other business in the
city can be or is more loyal to the
town than the newspaper and printing
Office. Should q newspaper for even
q short time ignore. The interests Of
the city ip which Il il published, q
cry and a complaint would 30 up from
every hand. If We will for i moment
stop to considerable injustice We are do
ing when we are going off to anotberto
purchase oar comforts and necessities;
if we will consider that we are disloyal
10 those who have Joined with ~ 10
build up q community, We will net %
80 unjust and disloyal au act, We be,
come traitors to those who are loyal
to Us and to whom we are under obi.
cations 10 trade and traffic.
There ID another form of disloyaIty
To a city which more quickly and GER
tRiniy ssps it's prosperity and retards
It's growth and that ID, n live in one
city and have interests iq another.
This ID keepiy felt when those cities
are riyal towns. Choose ye whom 70
viii serve, for ye cannot serve both.
Each individual has . right 10 trans.
fer Ills allegiance from one community
to another, bpt il ~ bis dqty 70 LET als
parties concerned know just where #
belongs. Aman who lives ip q town
for ~ other purpose than to suck from
that town bis wealth and his fatness,
and All bis weslth gees 70 benefit
some other and perhaps rival town, u
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